ReflectedLight Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 My cable tv and computer internet went down for about an hour and it made me think if I could give up at least tv for a month. Not that I watch alot of tv, but when you don't have it, you don't have a choice. I guess it's like anything else. If you train yourself and commit to it, you will change the thinking pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesweetscience Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 If it was in the middle of July, when all the sports that I like are in their off seasons, then I could do it no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflectedLight Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 QUOTE (thesweetscience @ Jun 6 2008, 06:26 PM) If it was in the middle of July, when all the sports that I like are in their off seasons, then I could do it no problem. How bout November? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Easily. Most of the time the idiot box is on for background noise only. Which is why, when our set went funky a few months ago, we didn't fork out several hundred dollars for an LCD or a plasma. We did get a flat tube, but it's still a console TV. I couldn't justify $900 for a TV when we watch so little of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 If you are talking not watching programming, then I could do it I think. I would miss my DVDs though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nic2112nic Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Yes, easily, I've been without a TV for most of my childhood until I moved to England from Eritrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflectedLight Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 I think I've become a little too dependent on tv. I'd like to cut the tv watching in 1/2 but it's tough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 I'm pretty sure I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesweetscience Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 QUOTE (hope70 @ Jun 6 2008, 07:29 PM) QUOTE (thesweetscience @ Jun 6 2008, 06:26 PM) If it was in the middle of July, when all the sports that I like are in their off seasons, then I could do it no problem. How bout November? I could if I had too but I would miss college and pro football and most of all hockey. I wouldn't do it intentionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Missing Mets baseball would bother me greatly ! Besides that, I have no social life (Im married ) so I need my TV ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilCastro Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 this is an easy question to answer:Â Â NO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theworkingman Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Im a 16 year old who just went on summer vacation. Of course not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRocinanteKid Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 With ease. In fact during my time at university I intend to do exactly that since I'm no way paying for a TV license. Just don't threaten to take the computer or my music away instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Did Lee Squat? Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Only a month? Most definitely. I probably watch only about an hour or two of TV a day on average, and I don't think I read or play my guitar as often as I should, so it sounds like the perfect solution. Plus this is the first summer I'll have a full-time job, and when you add ridiculous amounts of AP summer work and cross country and vacations and whatnot, I'm not really going to have loads of free time like I have in the past. Now the internet, no freaking way, I would die without TRF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaye Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jun 7 2008, 01:32 AM)Just don't threaten to take the computer or my music away instead! Same here! Â Just wait till this current series of Doctor Who is over, then I'll be able to live without TV for a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde77th Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Are you Crazy I couldn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbass Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Yes, I could live without TV for one month... Â However, I could not live without the internet for the same time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drumnut Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I can deal without TV but I'd go nuts if the internet connection went down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgyspice Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Sure. I don't even have cable. Now, if you asked me to give up the internet...I'd start having cold sweats within twenty minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlswing Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I could easily do that! Â With the recent writer strike I stopped watching it any way. Always wondered if that stopped other too. Â Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundog Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Yeah, I don't watch much TV anyways. When I do, I fall asleep.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gleamingalloyaircar81 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Back 2 years ago when I was in Iowa with my dad and 3 other cousins and 2 uncles, we had no TV or internet because my grandmas house had been shut off. ( We were cleaning her house to sell it because she was in a nursing home) Me and my cousins just sat in the living room talking and singing our favorite songs. We would go outside and walk down to the elementary school across the street from my grandmas house and play basketball, play on the playground, well not really play as it was relax on the playground. So yea I could do it no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choose/the/light Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 i never watch TV, there are so much better things i could do than waste time watching lame shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
third hand grace Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I went a year w/out tv. It was liberating. since then I have not watched nearly as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflectedLight Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 QUOTE (third hand grace @ Jun 7 2008, 12:03 PM) I went a year w/out tv. It was liberating. since then I have not watched nearly as much. How did you go a year without tv? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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